Blogger Beta workaround

28Sep06

Update Oct 3 2006:New version released (build 145), Blogger Beta “just works” without any of the shenanigans below. Thanks for your patience, everyone.

As a number of users have pointed out, Blogger Beta support is currently broken, even in the new Writer build. Apparently the Blogger guys revved their site after we completed testing. Ah well, they are in beta after all, these kinds of things are going to happen.

There are two problems, as it stands.

For Blogger Beta blogs, autoconfiguration fails and you’re asked for Remote Posting URL, which you almost certainly don’t know.

Even if you guess at the Remote Posting URL, you will probably get yourself into a state where you can post new entries, but not edit entries that weren’t written with Writer.

The workaround is to (when prompted) select “Blogger (Atom)” as the weblog type, and then enter a Remote Posting URL of the following form: